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Jury in Oracle v. Google Has Reached a Verdict on All Questions but One ~pj
Authored by: drewbenn on Friday, May 04 2012 @ 04:00 PM EDT
Or, the reason they're not at an impasse on question 4 is because they didn't
need to answer it.

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Somebody jumped the gun - ignore this comment
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, May 04 2012 @ 04:04 PM EDT
n/t

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  • maybe not - Authored by: YurtGuppy on Friday, May 04 2012 @ 06:09 PM EDT
    • maybe not - Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, May 05 2012 @ 11:35 PM EDT
Jury in Oracle v. Google Has Reached a Verdict on All Questions but One ~pj
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, May 04 2012 @ 09:08 PM EDT
And question 4 isn't at issue. So what can we infer from that?

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Never in doubt they'd find this.
Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, May 05 2012 @ 02:52 PM EDT
There was never a real question of this. Android's packages
are laid out the same way Java's are. IF API's were
copyrightable (the assumption the judge gave the jury), then
a reasonable jury would be hard pressed not to find this to
be a violation.

The INTERESTING question is whether (even IF API's are
copyrightable) Google's copying does not amount to
infringement (de minimis, fair use, etc.) If that's the
case, the judge doesn't have to rule on API copyrightability
- even if they were copyrightable, no infringement on these
facts, so no need to make that piece of new law.

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